Walker Park was opened in 1891 on land leased to Walker Board by Newcastle Corporation. The park was built for the large and growing community which developed alongside a colossal expanding industrial area. Facilities in the park included a promenade, bowling greens and pavilion, a lake, tennis courts, meandering walks through woodland overlooking the picturesque Walker Dene and Christ’s Church beyond. The park was enclosed by a band of trees and shrubs planted along the boundary. In 1901 a statue commemorating Rabbie Burns was erected by the local Burns Club supported by the numerous ship builders who moved to Walker from Clydesdale. By the 1940s the layout had been altered with a new bandstand, additional tree and shrub planting and the relocation of the tennis courts. Following a design competition in 1988 parts of the park were renewed with a new entrance at the south west corner, a new play area, paths, shrub beds, an amphitheatre, five aside area, grassed dry lake, bowling pavilion, lighting and seating areas. Despite the changes to the layout the original boundary, some compartments, the majority of the original path routes and many trees have survived.

In 1901 a statue commemorating Rabbie Burns was erected in Walker Park by the local Burns Club supported by the numerous ship builders who moved to Walker from Clydesdale.The plaque reads 'THIS STATUE WAS ERECTED IN WALKER PARK BY THE WALKER ON TYNE BURNS CLUB ON 13TH JULY 1901 TO MARK THE VISIT TO NEWCASTLE BY ROBERT BURNS ON THE 29TH MAY 1797. REMOVED TO THIS SITE BY THE CITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ON THE 27TH SEPTEMBER 1975'. It is a bronze cast and is in very poor condition. It is presently stored at Jesmond Dene Nursery. The Walker Park lottery bid [2010] has plans to recast the statue and put it back into the park.

1897 by Marshall and Dick for the Manchester Fire Assurance Company. Baroque terracotta-clad public office below. Prominent central gable.

Manors Car Park. 1971 by D.T. Bradshaw, City Engineer. Part of the Central Motorway East scheme.

18th century banqueting house. Restoration awaited. Over much of the 18th century, the five-bay house which is now the Market Lane Hotel, was owned by the Simpson family, members of the merchant adventurers. When the house was extensively rebuilt in the fashionable Baroque style, the banqueting house was added behind the house for entertaining in style, allowing the ground floor of the house to be used as office and parlour. The banqueting house lies parallel to the house and faces it across a small space which may originally been a garden. It has a steeply-pitched roof. The high ceiling in the main room has ornate cornicing, which would have been expected in a high-quality room of that period. The banqueting house is of brick construction. In 2001 the roof and upper walls of the potentially unstable structure were dismantled and the exposed first floor provided with a temporary covering. Demolition of later structures appended to the western face of the building resulted in the loss of a flight of stairs to the raised ground floor. The banqueting house is is extremely poor condition. Roof timbers and sash windows which have been removed are now stored on the upper floor. Portions of decorative mouldings from the first floor are stored in the heavily propped basement. The building measures 13.5m x 6.3m. It includes a low brick barrel-vaulted cellar. The brick is laid in very irregular bond including mixed header and stretcher courses. Sandstone details include the lintels over the windows and east-facing door. There is a simple but decorative two-brick deep string-course which runs round the building at first floor level.There is a sloping ground-floor passageway between the northern wall and the southern wall of the now demolished building B, which allowed access to the part of the property adjacent to the Lort Burn. The western elevation includes a vaulted hatch to the cellar and traces of the external stair. On the now dismantled upper floor was a niche topped by a brick relieving arch which internally formed an elaborate keyed archivolt with the banqueting room. This opening was filled by a modern window until demolition in 2001. The purpose of the aperture is uncertain. It probably acted as a receptacle for tableware used during receptions. The ceiling was of lath and plaster fixed to 3 x 3 inch joists. There is a fireplace in the southern wall of the ground floor and a timber stair up to the first floor. The upper banqueting room had been divided into two rooms at some point - the cornices were ornate Corinthian in one half and simple in the other. Two fireplaces heated this room - the one on the southern wall is original, that on the north wall an addition. Cackett and Burns Dick produced plans of the building in 1900 which show a dog-leg stair running tranversely across the building. It is recommended that the timbers from the banqueting house (now in store) are dendrochronologically dated.

Typical early 19th century pinkish-brown hand-made brick in English bond with stone lintels and sills and Welsh slate roof. Plain sandstone string course at window sill level on northern building. Three broad chimney stacks of brick with clay pots. Two three-storey Georgian buildings, which until recently were divided into three properties (Nos. 60, 64 and 68). The buildings are shown on the OS first edition map of 1863 (1:500 scale) with a roofed passage between Nos. 64 and 68, which continued to the rear as Lloyds Court. This is the medieval burgage plot boundary. The buildings were commercial properties. Census returns show that they were occupied by grocers, chemists, booksellers, furniture dealers, fishmongers, a musical instrument seller, a cabinet maker and other trades in the 19th and 20th centuries. No. 68 was the auction house of Messrs Easton and Bell from 1910 to 1935. Their salesrooms ran south through the back parts of No. 70 (the Market Lane Hotel). The Pilgrim Street frontage is of four bays defined by windows (sash frames now removed) on first and second floors. The ground floor has a shop frontage now blocked, with all features removed. The two properties are similar but were separately constructed blocks. Nos. 60 and 64 are broader and have a higher hipped-roof. No. 68 uses the northern sandstone (possibly medieval) wall of No. 70 as its southern wall with a brick gable built above No. 70s's gable. The second bay of No. 60 is new build. The survival of internal fixtures is at most partial. The whole plot is cellared. The cellar walls are of sandstone rubble. They may be earlier than the brick superstructure. The central room in the cellar is built in the same brick with blocked entrances and a blocked fireplace set into the north chimney stack wall. The ground floor has been stripped of original features and is currently in use as a builder's store. All dividing walls have been removed to incorporate the whole block into one commercial property. All plasterwork has been removed with the ceiling laths. Shop fronts have been removed. Six of the 19th century cast-iron columns along the external walls remain. The ceiling joists and first floor floorboards appear to be original. The first floor has been extensively stripped, the window frames and fireplaces removed. Most wall plaster survives but the ceiling plaster and lath has been stripped, leaving only fragmentary portions of florid and ornate cornice mouldings. There is a wall cupboard in the south wall of the southern room and a blocked niche in the east wall. Much of the fabric on the second floor has been compromised due to construction works on the adjacent Bacchus block. Girders and props are required as the structure is poorly tied in to the adjacent block to the south. Wall cupboards survive in two rooms. A single room has been installed in the attic space in No. 64. The roof structure is original with modern reinforecements. Although in poor condition, the buildings represent a pleasantly restrained Georgian architecture and fit very easily with the earlier Market Lane Hotel to the south. There were planning applications in 1879 and 1900-2.

1899, brick and stone with a gable, and an old entry, Heywood's Court.

A bar and offices, 1978-80 by Clifford Culpin & Partners, imitating historic proportions and introducing an irregular building line.

Circa 1964, printing works and offices for the Newcastle Journal and Evening Chronicle by Cackett, Burns Dick & Mackellar. Portland stone, dark grey mosaic, grid structure. Not sympathetic to the surroundings, but the rhythm of floor levels and bay divisions was intended to echo the 19th century town hall, framing the view of the cathedral and castle.

Solid mass, built as Sun Alliance House, 1974-6 by Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson & Partners. Glass entrance c. 2005. It replaced John Johnstone's Town Hall of 1858-63 (HER 6982).